bastille

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noun place for incarceration

noun. small room, container

noun. small room, container

noun. stronghold

noun. stronghold

14c. Paris prison destroyed by revolutionaries on July 14, 1789, French, literally "fortress, tower" (see bastion).

This Bouquet is a rascal who will be more likely to end in the Bastille than I, who did but defend my own.

You did good service at the taking of the Bastille, citizen?

Inform the Tribunal of what you did that day within the Bastille, citizen.

This time Hathelin had not the honour of the Bastille; he was sent to some depot.

In the winter, for being second in a duel, he was sent to the Bastille.

The Bastille and Vincennes both seemed to me too near to Paris.

The greater part of their servants have been sent to the Bastille.

He bears a warrant for your arrest and delivery to the governor of the Bastille.

The peasants took their cue from the Parisians, and treated every castle as a Bastille.

The people were in possession of the guns captured from the Bastille.